Dorothy Hamill: A Life of Hardship Inspires Others Dorothy Hamill faced many challenges in her life. There is so much more to her story than just her fame from the Olympics. Dorothy Hamill is an inspiration to all women because she won an Olympic gold medal for figure skating, conquered breast cancer, and shared her experience with chronic depression. Hamill’s Olympic journey was quite a success. According to the information presented on the Biography.com website, Hamill began skating at age eight on a pond in Greenwich, Connecticut (Biography.com Editors). After she was comfortable skating forward Hamill asked her parents to take her to an ice rink so she could learn how to skate backwards (Biography.com Editors). She immediately fell in
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Later, Hamill was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame, and The Figure Skating Hall of Fame (Biography.com Editors). She had the honor to carry the torch into the Olympic Stadium at the 2002 games (Biography.com Editors). Hamill also created a new turn that is now preformed in most skating routines called the “Hamill Camel” (Biography.com Editors). This turn is done on one foot while the upper body is parallel to the ice (Biography.com Editors). In brief, Hamill was very well-known after her success at the Olympics. Hamill was not prepared for what was about to come her way. In 2007, she had a routine mammogram (Moran). The doctor spoke with her regarding the results of the mammogram; the test had shown that she had breast cancer (Moran). After she received this horrible news, Hamill did some research about her cancer which is explained in the following by Jessica Moran, a sports freelancer:
Hamill was diagnosed with stage two hormone receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers, which is the most common form. About two out of every three breast cancers diagnosed are ER+, according to the American Cancer Society, with most cases being receptive to both estrogen and progesterone.
Later, Hamill was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame, and The Figure Skating Hall of Fame (Biography.com Editors). She had the honor to carry the torch into the Olympic Stadium at the 2002 games (Biography.com Editors). Hamill also created a new turn that is now preformed in most skating routines called the “Hamill Camel” (Biography.com Editors). This turn is done on one foot while the upper body is parallel to the ice (Biography.com Editors). In brief, Hamill was very well-known after her success at the Olympics. Hamill was not prepared for what was about to come her way. In 2007, she had a routine mammogram (Moran). The doctor spoke with her regarding the results of the mammogram; the test had shown that she had breast cancer (Moran). After she received this horrible news, Hamill did some research about her cancer which is explained in the following by Jessica Moran, a sports freelancer:
Hamill was diagnosed with stage two hormone receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers, which is the most common form. About two out of every three breast cancers diagnosed are ER+, according to the American Cancer Society, with most cases being receptive to both estrogen and progesterone.